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Bargains are getting even better! December 11, 2008

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When Dubli first started in the US I was, frankly, a bit underwhelmed at the discounts. For some weird reason people were buying things at only a slight discount from the list price. They could have bought these items cheaper at Amazon. Over time however, the discounts are growing. I don’t know the exact numbers but it looks like things are currently hovering at around 30%.

Interestingly if you go and look on the European site you will see the discounts are huge. You can see for yourself if you click on the European flag while on the Dubli site (it is next to the US flag). Some items on the Xpress auction are even down to zero! How can this be? You would think that if an item gets down to almnost zero someone would have bought it already.

What is happening is that the volume of clicks is becoming so high that there is a fast cascading effect once an item gets below a certain point.

In talking to some people at Dubli what I discovered is that previous experience shows that the growth in people using the auction seems to grow exponentially after around 4 months. It happened in Germany at 4 months and it is happening Europe wide after four month. We think it will happen in the US in four months. Since Dubli launched in the US in October that would put the upswing at around February or March. With the ongoing recession that could change but at some point it will happen.

For us business associates it means there should be a significan increase in our income in February or March, if we have been recruiting customers.

I’m excited. Got to run, got a bunch more customers to invite!

Information Calls Changing December 7, 2008

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For the time being we will no longer be having pre-scheduled information calls. We will however be more than happy to schedule calls on request.

We will however be having an in-person meeting for those of you in the Portland area this coming Tuesday. If you would like to attend please let me know.